“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Pause.) True and basic perception is a highly complicated phenomena, in which the line between perceiver and perceived vanishes. There is a strong correlation in what happens when the medium feels that a surviving personality has taken over the personality itself.

The medium perceives so clearly the reality of the surviving personality that the medium to some extent directly perceives that reality. You see the correlation here with what I told you in the past about experiencing concepts. That is one thing. To experience the reality of another does not necessarily mean that the medium negates her own personality—only that momentarily she allows it to perceive as directly as possible the experience of what it is to be the other. This involves a high degree of cooperation from the other person who does not exist in your physical terms, an opening of his reality to the medium rather than an invasion of the medium.

The information contained therein in such bulky printed form, is not physical. It is a matter of knowledge, electromagnetically coded, psychically valid, but you cannot hold knowledge in your hand and perceive it directly. You take its usual transmission in daily life for granted, overlooking the fact that all the physical aspects of its transmission and appearance serve to hide its basic non-materiality, and that words and printed data and moving pictures, all visual or physical symbols, are not the knowledge itself. These only serve as physical carriers. (Long pause.)

Now. Ruburt has always perceived with the inner senses.

Now. In your system of reality you are learning what mental energy is, and how to use it. You do this by constantly transforming your thoughts and emotions into physical form. You are supposed to get a clear picture of your inner development by perceiving the exterior environment. What seems to be a perception, an objective concrete event, independent and apart from you the perceiver, is instead the physical materialization of the perceiver’s own inner emotions, energy and mental environment.

As long as scientists insist upon considering the perceiver and the perceived event as entirely separate, then the true nature of perception will not be understood.

Now some inner data cannot be perceived or translated by the brain, practically speaking, but as minds develop so the physical brain will develop, and in some individuals to a large extent this has occurred.

To a large extent you create what you see or perceive. This does not mean you are the creator in that respect. There are many realities of whose existence you are ignorant, but they nevertheless exist. Now you may end the session or take a break as you prefer.

Your inner environment is the total of your inner (underlined) perceptions of inner reality. This is what you have to work with, and the raw material practically available. You then project this into physical events which you then physically perceive.

When you perceive more and more with your inner senses, you have more extensive raw material, better supplies, more available data. This should automatically bring about refinements within the physical structure to carry the additional data, and provide new outlets for materialization. The physical structure then to some extent is altered.

You remember this from our material on action and the personality. The ego therefore is pleased when information is proven correct. (Long pause.) If the nature of perception were clearly understood then the nature of reality as you know it would also be understood much more clearly. Only half the process of perception, so-called, is even considered, however. Only half of the circle is known. The entire circle consists of those projections outward that form events, as well as the mechanisms by which the events are then physically perceived.

It goes without saying that telepathy is one method by which events are formed as well as perceived, but telepathy hides so far beneath physical perception that it is hardly detected.